An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
FLOOD is a 5-letter word with 2 vowels (O, O) and 3 consonants (F, L, D). It repeats 1 letter, which is a classic trap — guessers who assume five distinct letters get stuck.
It leans on high-frequency letters (O), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. There are no rare letters here, so it is a fair, mid-difficulty answer for the daily Classic puzzle.
Across the 1,734 curated answers in the Wordocious bank, O appears in 30% of answers (the 5th most common letter), L appears in 26% of answers (the 8th most common letter), D appears in 19% of answers (the 11th most common letter). 28 other answers share the opening “FL-”, so two purple tiles up front still leave real guessing to do.
Difficulty: 3/5 — moderate, because the repeated letter hides one position.
One letter away in the answer bank: FLOOR, BLOOD. Each of these turns four tiles purple against FLOOD — the classic endgame squeeze where spending a guess on the differing letter beats burning attempts on hope.
Words like FLOOD are exactly what the daily puzzles throw at you. Warm up in Practice, race the clock in the Daily Challenge, or study the best starting words before your next run. New to the multi-board modes? The mode guides cover every mode.
Definitions adapted from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API (CC BY-SA). Letter statistics, difficulty ratings, and near-miss analysis are original Wordocious research computed from our curated answer list.
